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Official industrial carbon-pricing benchmarks, system coverage and the context organizations need to interpret Canadian market signals responsibly.

Explore the benchmark Government source

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$95

CAD / tCO₂e

01 / Federal trajectory

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of the benchmark.

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The federal headline price trajectory sets a policy benchmark for industrial carbon-pricing systems. It is not a live exchange quote.

Industrial carbon price trajectory2026—2040

CAD per tonne CO₂e

Source: Environment and Climate Change CanadaSource updated May 15, 2026

02 / Systems across Canada

One national benchmark.
Different market structures.

Industrial compliance

Federal OBPS

4 jurisdictions

Applies in Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Yukon and Nunavut.

Industrial compliance

Provincial systems

9 jurisdictions

Locally designed systems operate within federal minimum stringency standards.

Cap-and-trade

Québec

Provincial market

Québec operates a provincial cap-and-trade system for emission allowances.

03 / Data integrity

Official where available.
Transparent where it isn’t.

Government source syncedCanada.ca

The headline trajectory is checked automatically against the Government of Canada source every 12 hours. If the source is temporarily unavailable, the last successfully verified values remain visible instead of showing an invented quote.

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